Emily Browning Quotes
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.
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My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
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With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
